Some of the most wonderful aspects and consequences of evolution have been discovered only recently.
BILL NYEThe Big Bang banged, and for some reason we’re here. And that’s astonishing. And that we can understand that, that’s the most astonishing.
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The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It’s not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.
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The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It’s going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent’s generation.
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My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie.
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From an evolutionary standpoint you can’t just wipe everything out and start over, and I don’t think you can do it in the school system either.
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Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It’s not that we need more food. It’s that we need to manage our food system better.
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If you have this idea that the earth is only 6,000 years old, you are denying, if you will, everything that you can touch and see. Youre not paying attention to whats happening in the universe around you.
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I say to the grownups, if you want to deny evolution and live in your world, that’s completely inconsistent with the world we observe, that’s fine. But don’t make your kids do it. Because we need them.
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For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.
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There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as “we”; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.
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We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.
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The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don’t fool with that.
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Religion is a completely different thing from the claim that the Earth is six thousand years old. That’s just crazy.
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If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it’s game over. It’s control-alt-delete for civilization.
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Nuclear fission wasn’t discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example.
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One of the drawbacks of English is you can’t spell things by hearing them.
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